Price-ticket



(No Model.)

J. T. HOPKINS.

PRIGB TICKET.

No. 564,930. Patentsd July 28, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

JOHN T. HOPKINS, OF JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA.

PRICE-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettersrateee No. 564,93@ dated July es, ieee.

Application filed March 16, 1896. Serial No. 583,458. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom tm/ay concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN T. HOPKINS, a citizen of the United States,residing at'Jeffersonville, in the county of Clark and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Price-Tickets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apertains to make and use the same.

The nature of my invention is avariable price-ticket in which one or more numbered cards or slips is combined with` a slidable band or envelop in a manner to expose to view at one time but one iigure on the card or slip.

The object that I have in view is to provide a simple and inexpensive contrivance by which any desired figure or advertising matter, or both, can be exposed to public View, and which admits of a variety of different exposures by the simple interchange of diderently-figured cards or slips and differently-worded slidable bands or envelops.

To enable others to understand my invention, I have illustrated the same in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a pricecard embodying my improvement, and Fig. 2 is longitudinal sectional view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4: are face views of my priceticlret, showing different adjustments of the numbered cards and envelop or band. Figs. 5 and 6 are two views of one card, showing the two sides thereof; and Fig. 7 and 8 are similar views of another numbered card or slip.

Like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings, referring to which- A A designate the numbered slips or cards, and B is the slidable band or envelop, which partially incloses and conceals the card or cards and which may be moved thereon to conceal either the upper or lower half of said card or cards.

* In the preferred embodiment of my invention as shown in the accompanying drawings the card or slip A has one side or face thereof inscribed or printed in any suitable manner with two or more different figures or numbers, as at a a', (see Fig. 0,) which are arranged in columnar form, one below the other, and on the obverse face or side of the slip or card A are the different numbers or figures h ib, (see Fig. 6,) also arranged one below the other in columnar order. The other card or slip A' has on one :face the different 'numbers orgures, as at c o', (see Fig. 7,) and on the other side or face of said card or slip A are other different Anumbers or figures, (see Fig. 8,) as at d d', all arranged as previously described.

OfA course the number of slips or cards A A' may beincreased as desired, and the number of figures on each card or slip may be increased or diminished, as demanded by circumstances.

The cards or slips are of uniform size and shape, and they are placed or fitted together so that they register with each other and the edges of the cards are flush.

The envelop or band B may be made of paper, fabric, or any other appropriate material, and the size of this envelop or band is such as to inclose and conceal the half part 'of the-card or cards when the band or envelop is placed around the same.

The faces or sides of the envelop B may be printed or inscribed with suitable advertising or descriptive matter, or with any other inscription, as at e c in Figs. 3 and 4l, and by providing a series of these bands or envelops with different inscriptions they can be used interchangeably with variously numbered or ligured cards, so that the price-cards may be manipulated to display a variety of different numbers or figures in connection with various descriptive matters or advertising phrases.

If it is desired to display the figures and word 30 cents on card A, the band B is moved down on the cards to conceal the lower half thereof; but if it is desired to expose the inscription 35 cents on card A to view, the band B is slid up to cover the upper half of the cards. By reversing the card A and properly adjusting the band B, either the inscriptions 2O cents or 25 cents may be eX- posed to view. The card A' may be placed in front of the card A, and the same adjustment of the card A and the band B may be employed to display or expose to view either of the four inscriptions on the card A', and it IOO 9 Ascanso is further to be remarked that the band B may be reversed, so that the inscription on either face thereof may be exposed to view. Of course it is to be understood that differently-printed bands B may be used in connection with the cards A A to display diiferent descriptive or advertising matters, and also that differently numbered and printed cards A A may be used interchangeably with the bands or envelops.

Although I have shown and described the ticket as consisting of two cards which may be placed face to face and reversed or interchanged to expose either of the four faces of said two cards or slips, combined With a slid .able band to be adj usted to conceal one half of the cards and leave the other half exposed to View, yet I do not strictly limit myself to the employment of the two cards, because the band may be used in connection with a single card, or the number of cards maybe increased to such a number as will not make the display too bulky or interfere with the proper working of the band or envelop. Again, the cards may be increased in Width or length to contain more than two figures in each column, in which event the size of the band is proportionately increased to conceal all but the one inscription it is desired to expose to view. Of course the matter displayed by the cards and by the envelop or envelops may be changed and altered to suit the prices of the goods to which the cards are applied and the nature of business in Which the user vis engagged, and the style of lettering and the or- 11a-mentation may be such as is Within the printers art. i

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. As a new article of manufacture, a disi in presenceof tivo Witnesses.

play-tag comprising one or more flat cards having on each face thereof a series of inscriptions, and an open-ended slidable band or envelop, the superficial area of which is less than the area of the card, said envelop or band being,` fitted on the card to conceal the inscriptions thereon eXcept the inscriptionL upon the exposed portion of said card and also slidable thereon to expose any of the inscriptions at Will, as and for the purposes described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a display-tag comprising a series of iiat cards or slips of correspondingsize and shape and rcreversibly and interchangeably placed or stacked against each other, each card havin a series of inscriptions on its faces and an open-ended band or envelop of less superncial area than either card and slidably fitted on the series of cards to removably conne them in place and to conceal all the inscriptions except those upon the projecting portions of the cards, as and for the purposes described.

3. A display ticket or tag comprising,` cards er slips each provided with at least two inscriptions on each face thereof and said cards corresponding,` to each other in form and shape, combined with a slidable band which f also provided with a suitable inscription, sub- 1 stantially as and for the purposes described. In testimony whereof I affix my signature JOHN T. HOPKINS. "Witnesses:

CHARLES I-I. KELLY, CHRIS PEACELEY. 

